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Summary

In this chapter you saw how to access Microsoft Office applications' features from VB.NET projects. You saw how to send data to and from Word, Outlook, and Excel. And you explored various ways to employ the major tools and utilities within Office applications.

First you saw how to reference, then instantiate, Word and exploit its spell-checker utility three different ways from within VB.NET. Then you saw how to send a fax from VB.NET via Word's faxing facilities. You learned how to load a document, and get statistics about documents, such as a word count. You saw how to suppress unwanted dialog box messages, and how to get a list of files from within directories and their subdirectories.

You explored Word further, seeing how to feed text into documents—including manipulation such as insertion and replacement—and also how to format and print text from within Word.

Then you learned to use Outlook to access incoming e-mail messages. Finally, you saw how to employ Excel to evaluate math expressions, print tabular data for reports, and format, calculate, and read or write .xls files.

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